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ELLIS, LEWIS (1761 - 1823), musician appears in the corporation of Beaumaris records: 'Year ended Michaelmas 1796. Voucher, Lewis Ellis for what ordered to be given him out of the Corporation Fund, towards satisfying him for an organ built by him for the use of Beaumaris church, £10.10.0.' He was organist of the church until 1800. He died 25 March 1823 and was buried in Beaumaris churchyard.
ELLIS, RICHARD (1784 - 1824), excise officer and musician Born 24 January 1784, son of Lewis Ellis, Llansadwrn, Anglesey, organist at Beaumaris parish church. In 1800 he succeeded his father as organist of Beaumaris church, a post which he held until he died. In 1821 he finished collecting material for a book containing hymn-tunes and psalms for use in churches, a work for the publication of which the bishop of Bangor gave his consent; what became of
ELLIS, ROWLAND (1650 - 1731), Welsh-American Quaker -in-law, John Evans, in Gwynedd, and was buried in the Friends' burial ground at Plymouth. Bryn Mawr College (now University) for women is a reminder of the Bryn Mawr in Wales where Rowland Ellis was born. On Rowland Ellis's antecedents and connections see further the article on the Lewis and Owen families of Tyddyn-y-garreg.
ELLIS, THOMAS PETER (1873 - 1936), judge (I.C.S.) and authority on Punjab customary law and medieval Welsh law Born at Wrexham, 4 June 1873, son of Peter Ellis and Mary (Lewis). His father died when he was very young, and he spent his early youth with his mother and her family on a farm near Glyndyfrdwy. He was educated at Oswestry high school and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he became an admirer of (Sir) Owen M. Edwards. He went to India and soon earned distinction: he came to be considered one of
EMMANUEL, IVOR LEWIS (1927 - 2007), singer and actor Ivor Emmanuel was born at 3 Prince Street, Margam on November 7 1927, the son of Stephen John Emmanuel (1905-1941), a steelworker, and his wife Ivy Margaretta (née Lewis, 1908-1941). He had a younger sister and brother, Mair and John. When he was less than a year old the family moved to Pontrhydyfen, the village in which the actor Richard Burton was born, and the two became friends. On May 11
ENOCH, SAMUEL IFOR (1914 - 2001), minister (Presbyterian) and theological professor Ifor Enoch was born in Ciliau Aeron, Ceredigion, 26 December 1914, one of the three sons of the Rev. J. Aeronydd Enoch (Independent) and Jennie Enoch. He was brought up in Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, where the three brothers attended the CM Sunday School. He graduated in Greek at University College, Swansea, in 1937 before moving to Westminster College, Cambridge, having won a Lewis and Gibson
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EVAN(S), EDWARD (1716 - 1798), Presbyterian minister and poet Born March 1716 (possibly 1717) at Llwydcoed, Aberdare, son of Ifan ap Shôn ap Rhys, a weaver and smallholder. After a few years as a weaver he was apprenticed to carpentry under Lewis Hopkin, who also instructed him in the practice of the strict metres in poetry. In 1749 he took the farm of Ton Coch, above Dyffryn House, Mountain Ash. He had joined (c. 1748) the Nonconformist congregation at Cwm
EVAN(S), LEWIS (1720 - 1792), one of the earliest Calvinistic Methodist exhorters in North Wales Christened 18 February 1719/20, son of Evan Lewis of Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire, but removed when very young to Crugnant, Llanllugan, Montgomeryshire, where he became a weaver. On a visit to Trefeglwys, 4 November 1738, he was converted by a sermon of Howel Harris's. He then went to some of Griffith Jones's circulating schools around Llanllugan, and began to exhort as a Methodist. At the
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teulu EVANS Tan-y-bwlch, Maentwrog Lewis Anwyl, vicar of Abergele, author and translator, and that Ifan Griffith's brother, Owen Griffith (died 1728), was rector of Llanfrothen.) The heir of Ifan Griffith was ROBERT GRIFFITH (1717 - 1750), his son by his first wife, Jane, daughter and heiress of Thomas Meyrick, Berthlwyd, Ffestiniog. Robert Griffith, who was sheriff of Merioneth, 1742, married Ann, daughter of Thomas Lloyd Anwyl
EVANS, ALFRED THOMAS (Fred, Menai; 1914 - 1987), Labour politician headmaster at Lewis School, Pengam, 1966-68. He was elected a member of the Gelligaer Urban District Council, 1948-51, and also served as president of the Caerphilly CLP. He had already stood as the Labour candidate in the Leominster division of Herefordshire in the 1955 general election and at Stroud, Gloucestershire in 1959. In the general elections of 1964 and 1966, Fred Evans acted as political agent

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